Well Saturday morning we where up at six o clock and had some hot coffee and as I was filling the thermos with coffee I heard the front door open. I l...oked at my wife and said who is here this early? She smiled and said that would be Mike, I ask him along. Before I could say I didn't want company with us he walked in the kitchen. He walked straight to my wife and gave her a long passionate kiss right in front of me. When he was finished he looked at me and said whats up? I didn't say anything I. You were amazing." Um, but seriously," she started, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand and then licking that clean. "Don't you want to —" You know what I want to do?" I interrupted her. Honestly, did she think I had no principles at all? "What I want to do is spend the afternoon out by the pool. I can study French, and if I have any questions, you'll be right there to answer them. I mean, it's not like you can leave, huh?" The pool?" she asked skeptically."Yeah, don't worry, nobody can. There would be no discussions about heartache, lost love, or the future. You know something, one of these days I am going to look fate in the eye. Then say, fuck you, this time fate, you just drew the losing hand. Douglas, I pray that one day you to will find the love, peace, and happiness that you deserve. She told him she needed to see him again. She wanted to feel his arms around her one more time. Then she could say adieu. She did not want him, to hear the tears in her voice, when she. ”I suppose I should have explained much earlier, that Carol is my mother’s cousin. Which makes her my, my ... well whatever it is, we are related. She’s my mum’s favorite cousin, and now that my parents live in Holland, has decided she’s my de facto mother. Oh yes, and Philip the cricketer is her son which makes him my ... oh hell, I’ve no idea.She was one of the reasons we had decided to buy the cottage in the village, and why we’d been accepted into the community so easily. It also gives her.